​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – January 2

-- Entrances to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were heavily congested on Monday evening due to a large number of people rushing back to the two cities following the New Year holiday.

-- A total of 124 traffic crashes occurred across Vietnam during the New Year holiday from December 30, 2017 to January 1, 2018, killing 67 victims and injuring 74 others.

-- A tropical depression forming in the southern Philippines is heading toward to East Vietnam Sea and is expected to develop into a storm, affecting the country’s southern region, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee organized a ceremony at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Monday to welcome the first visitors in 2018. The city has set up a goal to welcome 7.5 million tourists this year.

-- A 37-year-old woman in the south-central province of Phu Yen is now in a critical condition after setting herself on fire on Monday evening, purportedly due to emotional problems.

-- Police in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho carried out a raid on a local club on Monday, following which 64 people tested positive for drugs.

Business

-- The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is in dire need of coffee harvesters during the peak of the harvest season.

-- Sale of the A92 gasoline, the most commonly used in Vietnam, was officially halted forever on Monday in accordance with a regulation by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. People are now able to buy the A95 fuel and E5 biofuel.

Sports

-- The Vietnam national under-23 football team arrived in China on Monday to prepare for the 2018 AFC U-23 Asian Cup, which is scheduled to take place from January 9 to 27.

Many sewers along the streets in Ho Chi Minh City have their entrances blocked by garbage on a regular basis, negatively impacting urban esthetics and the environment while helping cause serious flooding.

Despite the sweltering weather in Hanoi these days, many young people still flock to lotus ponds surrounding the capital city’s iconic Ho Tay (West Lake) to pose for Instgram-ready photos with a sea of blooming flowers.